Astounding that swimming and collisions and all that stuff seems to function!
Commenter explains how it works:
I can see not enough people know how this addon works. Allow me to explain.
It is a mod, but it was only possible with a plugin, it can be (with a bit of tweaking) used for other games and already has been, for example rocket league, sonic generations, blender and minecraft. the way it works is that mario 64 is running in the background so that the mario physics and gameplay functions work, but the actual character is invisible but the hitbox is still there, so that mario actually can be hit for example. with the plugin mario can pretty easily be put into any game, though some fixes might be needed at some times, for example in sonic generations for the rails to work, mario has to be disabled and sonic's control is taken over again so that "mario" can grind on rails.
TD;LR: Basicilly this addon use libsm64 which contains original SM64 assets and ported into GMod. So yeah, it's not a recreation and that's also explain why you need a Mario 64 ROM (in z64 file format) to get this addon working.
Dwedit 11 hours ago [-]
How many Portal test chambers could be solved with Mario 64 jumping alone, and no use of any portal gun?
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PcChip 12 hours ago [-]
That is amazing and it makes me smile
pizzathyme 7 hours ago [-]
This is incredible. This was the promise of the proclamations of "the metaverse" or interchangeable crypto game items/characters, but is using none of those things. Like Ready Player One come to life without the hype.
Curious how easy the setup is for gamers who are non-engineers
bigfishrunning 4 hours ago [-]
> Curious how easy the setup is for gamers who are non-engineers
You're still writing a mod for whatever game, it's just that this library gives you an easy way to get the mario-jumping physics right. So unfortunately, non-programmers will probably have to wait for someone to insert mario into your game of choice, although this library will make that process a bit easier.
echelon 7 hours ago [-]
Metaverse without Crypto/VR/Facebook is fantastic and is bound to happen.
Metaverse is just people building cool stuff in a way that builds and compounds.
Critically - hopefully - in a way that can't be owned as a central platform.
dev0p 12 hours ago [-]
Wrap it in an API, sell Mario 64 as a service.
(@Nintendo: this is a joke, you can put down the rifle)
thebruce87m 12 hours ago [-]
I imagine Nintendo is a bit more like malfunctioning ED-209 in the office scene than a person with a rifle.
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fhn 10 hours ago [-]
Nintendo did put down their rifles after they fired multiple shots into the head and then the sued.
Someone created an AR sandbox using it on the Quest 3. The player draws platforms and mario can jump around on the platforms and on your couch and stuff.
That is probably the killer app of VR that everyone has waited for.
deadbabe 13 hours ago [-]
So let me get this straight, is the intent of this so that if you have some game like Call of Duty, you could use this to just add Mario running around in there jumping around like it was SM64?
guipsp 13 hours ago [-]
It's specifically about the mechanics/physics rather than the model, but yes.
tosti 4 hours ago [-]
It has the vertices, the surfaces, the textures and the animations.
There's a minecraft mod too, you press m and f5, boom you're mario.
anthk 9 hours ago [-]
I'd love the Perfect Dark recompilation working under GL 2.1:
That port is amazing, probably one of my most played games on my steam deck. What is GL 2.1?
anthk 1 hours ago [-]
OpenGL 2.1, basically between DirectX 8 and 9 level. If the Super Mario 64 PC port can run even under VooDoo 3D graphics card, I'd love a Max Payne level era device (and maybe able to run HL2) being able to play that.
Commenter explains how it works:
Curious how easy the setup is for gamers who are non-engineers
You're still writing a mod for whatever game, it's just that this library gives you an easy way to get the mario-jumping physics right. So unfortunately, non-programmers will probably have to wait for someone to insert mario into your game of choice, although this library will make that process a bit easier.
Metaverse is just people building cool stuff in a way that builds and compounds.
Critically - hopefully - in a way that can't be owned as a central platform.
(@Nintendo: this is a joke, you can put down the rifle)
found this: https://youtu.be/NXpOCfg8O64
Edit: https://github.com/SuperSonicHub1/awesome-libsm64
There's a minecraft mod too, you press m and f5, boom you're mario.
https://github.com/perfect-dark-pc-port/perfect_dark